A Billboard at the RNC Will Show Donald Trump Kissing Ted Cruz

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz spent nearly a year at each other's throats, but a billboard that just went up in Cleveland shows them about to lock lips instead. Non-profit Planting Peace created the billboard, an illustration of Trump and Cruz just moments away from kissing each other.

"Love Trumps Hate," the billboard says. "End homophobia."

The billboard is located about five minutes from the spot where Republicans will gather next week for the Republican National Convention, according to the Huffington Post.

Aaron Jackson, president of Planting Peace, told the Huffington Post that the billboard is meant as a direct response to the Republican party's message of hate towards LGBT groups.

Republicans have taken a decidedly anti-gay stance in the party's platform, which it writes every four years before the convention. It's against gay marriage, gay parenthood, transgendered people using the bathroom, and basically just being gay—an amendment specifically addresses gay conversion therapy. Republicans even defeated an amendment that would have said ISIS specifically targets homosexuals, according to The New York Times.

"What Donald, Ted and the Republican party either fail to realize, or realize and just don't seem to care about, is that their words and actions toward our LGBT family―especially LGBT children ― have meaning and impact," Jackson said. "LGBT children hear these messages telling them they are nothing but second class citizens and are left feeling broken or 'less than.'"

In addition to erecting provocative billboards, Planting Peace is also responsible for Equality House, the rainbow-colored house in Topeka, Kansas across the street from Westboro Baptist Church, a group that regularly stages anti-LGBT protests with messages of hate scrawled on signs.

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